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New Eldar God: Ieronsath [KT: Exodite]

Kill Team: Exodite included this small passage about a yet-unknown Eldar God (pg. 15)

Exodite Dragon Knights harken back to deities form the Aeldari's fallen pantheon, depicted in preserved tales as hunting and making war atop exalted steeds. Among these, Ieronsath, daughter of the goddess Morai-Heg, is said to have hunted sentient insanities from the back of Chadhu – a beast wrought from a wisp of her mother's hair. Ritual dances, meanwhile, portray the war god Khaine riding a legendary steed named Alean in acts set during the War in Heaven.

With Ahnakh-Yth that brings us to two daughters of Morai-Heg in two years. Both fiber artists, what a delight!

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u/zap1000x — 14 days ago
▲ 264 r/Eldar

Woah, new god! Ieronsath (KT: Exodite, pg. 15)

Noticed her in the new Kill Team: Exodite. Always fun to get something new!

"Ieronsath, daughter of the goddess Morai-Heg, is said to have hunted sentient insanities from the back of Chadhu – a beast wrought from a wisp of her mother's hair."

u/zap1000x — 14 days ago

Do we know anything about "Sa'birah", the Hag Queen/Temptress? (40kCCG)

I've been learning more about the 40kCCG and I came across these two cards in the Siege of Mallogrim Hive set (2003). She appears to be some kind of...spellcaster? Which seems odd, even back then.

Does anyone know more? Who is this lady?

u/zap1000x — 23 days ago
▲ 2.6k r/exodite40k+2 crossposts

Exodite with a bow

I love the new figures but I really like bows

u/Soon-le — 30 days ago
▲ 5 r/Eldar

Phoenix Lords (Dark Millennium CCG)

These were the Phoenix Lord arts included with the Dark Millenium CCG base set.
Folks seemed to like the arts from the 40kCCG set, so I thought I'd highlight these as well (same Karandras).

Apologies for potato quality, as that seems to be the best quality these cards were ever digitized in.

u/zap1000x — 1 month ago
▲ 191 r/Eldar

The Phoenix Lords on Pandora Prime (WH40kCCG)

Going through the art of the 40k CCG, and noticed all of the big Phoneix Lords were in the one set. Thought others might get a kick out of them.

u/zap1000x — 1 month ago
▲ 1.3k r/Drawfee+4 crossposts

On January 5th, 1955 Charles Schulz, creator of the Peanuts Comics, responded to a fan complaint by drawing a character with an axe in her head, and blaming the fan for the characters death

u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 — 1 month ago
▲ 603 r/MBMBAM+1 crossposts

Heater for the Big Boy

Throwing a "Heater for the Big Boy" for the first pitch of the Orioles game after retiring from teaching for the city. She really managed to 20-Make-it-Stick!

All credit goes to HeyLizardLeigh('s Mom) over on TikTok, I just happened upon it on my FYP but I thought r/MBMBAM (and the boys, if they're watching) would enjoy it.

u/isahoneypie — 2 months ago

Where do Necron Transdimensional Weapons...go?

I recently came across Necron Transdimensional Weapons which move their targets to another dimension.

Do we have any idea where that...is? Is that elsewhere in space? The Ghostwind? The Fourth Dimension? Pocket Dimensions? The Warp?

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u/zap1000x — 2 months ago
▲ 786 r/Eldar

Farseer by John Blanche (White Dwarf 202)

Hi folks, the uncolored version of this art (which appeared in the 2e Codex beside Eldrad) has shown up now and again and I thought y'all might be interested to see the color version.

It's one of the most unique Eldar arts I'm aware of, and shows where their art design can still go. Blanche made some rather interesting design choices: rainbow robe (unusual colors for Blanche who favored the Zorn pallet), lion head-dress, and the rather tadpole-like runes of fate.

u/zap1000x — 2 months ago

Is “Dr Gostello's Amazing Intergalactiac Psycho-Circus” a reference to something from 80s UK popular culture?

The Psycho-Circus appears in the first ad for Rogue Trader in 1983, and *also* in the published book in 1987, so it was a joke that Rick Priestly thought worked (and it does, as a non-sequitur).

But was it a reference to something from the 80s that I’d miss forty years later?

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u/zap1000x — 2 months ago
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Besides the Thorians, who is trying to bring the Emperor back from the dead?

I was reading the Thorian inquisition sourcebook, and I was curious if there were other efforts out there?

I know about the Illuminati/Star Child from Realms of Chaos but what else is hiding within the lore?

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u/zap1000x — 3 months ago
▲ 146 r/Harlequins40K+1 crossposts

Avatar of the Laughing God (2nd Edition) [Inquisitor Magazine 18]

I've seen this idea suggested more than a few times, so I though folks might want to know that way back in 1999 players were already crafting ideas for an Avatar of Cegorach.

For those not deep into oldhammer, Inquisitor Magazine was a 40K letters forum published by Tim DuPertuis of Armorcast (a precursor to Forge World) whose readership included Games Workshop employes, and served as an official FAQ for 2nd Edition (and early 3rd), with answers by Andy Chambers.

While the fan-submitted content (including the Avatar) was never GW-official, you would be well within your rights to ask your playgroup if it was okay to bring to a table in the same way one might with its in-house successors The Citadel Journal or Fanatic Magazine.

I personally love the idea of Cegorach disguising himself among the Harlequins only to do a grand reveal partway into the battle.

u/zap1000x — 3 months ago
▲ 19 r/40kLore

What statements have been made over the years about Warhammer Fantasy "sharing" or "not sharing" the Warp?

I remember playing decades ago and it was understood as "common knowledge" that the two "shared the warp", however recent years appear to have taken that in a different direction.

I was wondering if the understanding I had growing up was fabricated or if the two universes did at one point share an origin? And, if that were the case, when it changed?

Was this ever in codexes? White Dwarf?

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u/zap1000x — 3 months ago
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What is the niche archetype in your cube that you’re most proud of?

I’m remembering old archetype shifts in the Planar Chaos cube, and it got me wondering about other niche archetypes and how y’all have made them work.

What is unusual but absolutely kicks ass in your cube?

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u/zap1000x — 3 months ago
▲ 79 r/JudgeDredd+1 crossposts

Do you know what these two vehicles are?

Hi, these two vehicles were included in Citi-Block (1987) and were intended for use with the Judge Dredd Role-playing Game.

Does anyone know what vehicles from the comics they're intended to represent?

u/zap1000x — 3 months ago

I was reading Andy Chambers' "The Masque of Vyle", which takes place in the sub-realm of the Sable Marches (an ocean archipelago in the webway, and a recent acquisition of Vect), and came across this little exchange about Land Eels, or arcotheurs, that I thought others might delight in knowing about:

> Yes, of course the riding beasts, you stupid toad,’ Kassais spat in disgust.‘

> ‘We call them arcotheurs. They are a local lifeform normally found only in deep water,’ Yegara rushed to explain. ‘If captured young enough they can be raised as you see them here, in an air-dwelling form.’

> The arcotheurs were ribbon-like in their body shape, with multiple curved legs dangling beneath. Chitinous plates protected them from tip to tail, starting no bigger than a thumbnail and widening to a double arm-span width around the midriff. The creatures ‘swam’ just above the surface of the grass in a series of undulating ripples moving backwards from their hooked mouthparts.

> As they dismounted from the Venoms, Kassais saw that most of the creatures had high-backed saddles strapped just above the mouthparts. A few already had riders in tall plumed helmets, equipped with long, hooked lances.

Drukhari and Deepkin are often compared, and I've seen more than a few great deepkin conversions, but if you ever wanted lore permission to kitbash some Arkhelian Guard, you (kinda) have have it!

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u/zap1000x — 4 months ago
▲ 488 r/Eldar

While its been now dismantled, I thought folks would be interested in seeing what the Valedor boards at Warhammer World had looked like.

These images were posted by the Warhammer World Facebook Page in 2021.

u/zap1000x — 4 months ago
▲ 108 r/Eldar+1 crossposts

The Exodite Corpus: 35 Years of Exodites

Hello /r/40kLore! I'm well aware that links are uncommon, but I'm hoping you'll make an exception.

I've spent the last long while compiling everything ever written about the Eldar Exodites into one place, a project that began with the intention of including a summary in a reddit post that quickly outgrew the character limitations of reddit. The project includes a summary of everything written by subject (with inline citations) and over fifty pages of annotated original sources (no source replicates the complete work, this was entirely for educational purposes). I hope this inspires you to get into Exodites, and at the very least gives you something to tide over this eons-long drought of Dino Elves.

Some highlights:

  • Before ever working on 40k, Jes Goodwin and Rick Priestly worked on the Science Fiction line of miniatures for Asgard. The first miniature kit produced in that line was a dinosaur riding alien in power armor.^1

  • The first printing of the word “Exodite” was thirty-five years ago in White Dwarf 126, in the same article that introduced the Eldar and Imperial Knights.^2

  • Worldsingers were not introduced until 2012’s “Path of the Renegade”^3, but it was 2013’s “Promethean Sun” that gave them the ability to control plants. It was also “Promethean Sun” that finally gave a name to the horse-sized dinosaurs the Exodites ride: “Raptors”.^4

There’s a whole lot more to read up on, and it's a lot better written than this post. Enjoy!

Sources (for this post):

1 Asgard Miniatures Catalogue “SF1 — Saurian Rider on Hunting Lizard” (1977)

2 White Dwarf UK 126 (Epic: Adeptus Titanicus, 1990)

3 Path of the Dark Eldar: Path of the Renegade (Novel, 2012)

4 Promethean Sun (Novella, 2013)

u/zap1000x — 2 months ago